17 August Deaths

August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 136 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Deaths

754 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia
1153 – Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (b. 1130)
1304 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1324 – Irene of Brunswick (b. 1293)
1338 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301)
1424 – John Stewart, Earl of Buchan (b. c. 1381)
1510 – Edmund Dudley, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1462)
1510 – Richard Empson, English statesman
1547 – Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478)
1673 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German author (b. 1621)
1720 – Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654)
1723 – Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668)
1768 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703)
1785 – Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 – Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712)
1814 – John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732)
1834 – Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802)
1838 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
1850 – José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)
1861 – Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806)
1870 – Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818)
1875 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827)
1897 – William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (b. 1821)
1901 – Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842)
1903 – Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825)
1908 – Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873)
1909 – Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883)
1918 – Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873)
1920 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1924 – Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
1925 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
1935 – Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
1935 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860)
1936 – José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880)
1940 – Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)
1945 – Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
1949 – Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891)
1958 – Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (b. 1878)
1966 – Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
1969 – Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1970 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908)
1971 – Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
1971 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 – Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889)
1973 – Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)
1973 – Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (b. 1939)
1979 – John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
1979 – Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
1983 – Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (b. 1896)
1987 – Gary Chester, Italian drummer and educator (b. 1924)
1987 – Rudolf Hess, German soldier and politician (b. 1894)
1987 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1988 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
1988 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (b. 1935)
1990 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
1994 – Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1901)
1994 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (b. 1902)
1995 – Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
1995 – Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
1998 – Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (b. 1940)
1998 – Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)
2000 – Jack Walker, English businessman (b. 1929)
2004 – Thea Astley, Australian author and educator (b. 1925)
2005 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934)
2006 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929)
2007 – Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2007 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
2008 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1926)
2010 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian lawyer and politician, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
2012 – Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician, Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (b. 1915)
2012 – Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (b. 1933)
2012 – Patrick Ricard, French businessman (b. 1945)
2012 – John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
2013 – Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Jack Harshman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2013 – John Hollander, American poet and critic (b. 1929)
2013 – Frank Martínez, American painter (b. 1924)
2013 – Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (b. 1912)
2014 – Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937)
2014 – Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (b. 1921)
2014 – Sophie Masloff, American civil servant and politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917)
2014 – Miodrag Pavlović, Serbian poet and critic (b. 1928)
2014 – Pierre Vassiliu, French singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2015 – Mike Gaechter, American football player (b. 1940)
2015 – Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, German businessman (b. 1933)
2015 – László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927)
2016 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)

Source: wikipedia